What hardware was used ?
Well I have to admit, that we mostly tested hardware. That’s right… the majority of hardware wasn’t pre-tested on other cooling, apart from some CPUs that were previously tested on air or singlestage phase change cooling…

George_o/c and giorgos th. It’s pretty visible isn’t it ? Multiply giorgos’s weight by one and a half and there you go, that’s me!

And of course, the superstar aka hipro5 aka grandpa. Rushed into the event with his Gulftown and smashed multiple records. It was an honor watching hipro benching live. He’s so calm and focused, even knowing that various cameras were pointing at him.

George (tsan) and sofos1990 benching 3DMark2001 SE – the best 3D Benchmark out there. System used ? Famous combination when aiming for Single Card World Records: Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 and ASUS Rampage Extreme, along with an EVGA GTX295.

That’s the system I benched with junior21. EVGA GTX295, Core i7 950 and EVGA Classified X58 E760. Bad thing is that we were experiencing weird motherboard problems. First day 5.3GHz SPi 32M and ~5.45GHz SPi 1M. Second day 5.15GHz AquaMark3 stable for an hour… Moments later, we couldn’t even bench AquaMark3 at 4.92GHz.

Junior21 and Seaside posing next to GoriLLakoS’s CPU pot.

George_o/c, Winters, GoriLLakoS

There you go. Another upcoming Greek overclocker, phil! If only he had his cascade with him.

Whoever is benching with liquid nitrogen has to admit that he’s doing that. I know, I know, it’s fun. And chilling of course.

Seaside’s first experience with liquid nitrogen.

Zafiropo, Stelaras, GoriLLakoS in the background. Pastelidis.n.s. doing his magic tricks in the front.

Sofos1990 is one of the greatest jinxers alive. I’m starting to lose my patience with all this bad luck. ROFL, notice how angry I am, looking at his face and forgetting all about de-freezing the pot. Just kidding.

Sofos1990 challenging EVGA Classified E760. Intriguing fight.

Want a frozen beer as fast as possible ? Use liquid nitrogen, I promise it will do the job.

Crio refilling his dewar with pure, wr crushing liquid nitrogen.

I just had to pour some more liquid nitrogen on the floor, in order to attract everyone’s attention. Some of the visitors who didn’t have the faintest idea about what was going on the event, thought that the floor was on fire!

hiprambo5 on action (again)

However, Athens Digital Week wasn’t only about overclocking. One could say, that extreme on-stage overclocking was a small drop of water in the ocean, in comparison with the rest of the event. Telecoms, robotics, music, pc gaming and case modding had huge fans and a large number of visitors as well. Unfortunately though, due to limited time, I can only post photos of the modded rigs, that were from my point of view, spectacular! I met most of the modders in person. Some of them were 12 or 13-year old boys, rushing from school back to the event so that they represent their innovating creations. If that’s not passion, then what is my friends ?

AND THE WINNER IS… linos80 with his fabulous aquarium pc

Last but not least, three videos. The second one is REALLY funny. If you’d like, I’ll translate what is said in the video… we’re mostly laughing at crustytheclown and hipro, in a friendly and polite way though